Which hype? Matrix as a protocol is used for a decade now, especially by various big governments (French, Luxembourg and German governmental messenger, various German states, German and Polish armed forces, German healthcare messenger, various smaller projects in Latin America), is bridgeable (I currently have it bridged to Whatsapp and Signal amongst others) but I really don’t see a hype - on the contrary I only see people predicting me the immediate apocalypse of Matrix for 5 years now, currently due to matrix.org (one of a hundred instances) introducing a premium account model for the most cost intensive (heavily media sharing)users. (See below for that).

Overdramatic blog post,sorry. I can’t stand the whole “fremmium” crybabies that then literally recommend the next freemium or “non transparent funding model” service… And don’t understand the fundamental difference between the Protocol and one of its implementations.

Matrix as a protocol is solid and is used far beyond the Matrix messenger. (e.g. the French and German governmental messenger, the German healthcare messenger,various armies,etc.) With a lot of commits coming from there - but not enough funding,that is definitely an issue.

The current issue with Freemium is solely limited to the matrix.org instance. There are hundreds of federated instances out there that aren’t Freemium and won’t have the need to go that way as they are funded differently.(e.g. the Lemmy Instance I am currently writing from, feddit - we are financed through other means) As they are federated it doesn’t matter - and honestly, I personally tend to see this as a good thing - it will lead users away from matrix.org towards other instances, making the whole network more reliable and decentralized.

There are two other issues that are relevant, though: The way the foundation is run is not ideal, definitely - there are and were issues and I am not happy with some management decisions, but at least they are getting somewhat better recently (government board). The whole protocol does not evolve as fast as it should be and this is an issue,especially as a it also affects bug fixing. As an executive for a (much smaller) company myself I see management issues and infighting due to lack of leadership within the foundation and I am not happy with that. The second issue is Element as a company that does things companies do - focus on making money. This in theory would be a good thing if Element would send enough money AND effort upstream to seriously bring the whole project forward. For a long time this seemed to be the case,but licensing issues and the “stale” development off Element X(Matrix 2.0) has me questioning that as well - but recent changes show us hope in that regard. We also need to carefully reconsider if element is keeping too much"closed" source code for monetized features and what influence VC really has. In conclusion: We need better leadership for Matrix,more transparency and more funding.

The good news is: It doesn’t mattter too much - if the current foundation fucks up and goes belly up it is not the end of Matrix - the protocol is decentralized enough and the licencing of the core components permissive enough for another (better?) foundation to start over. There are dozends of clients available and we have alternative servers available by now.

The funding part nevertheless is my major pet peeve here. All around Europe governments try to get rid of US tech - and use Matrix protocol based products. But they hardly if ever fund that. If Germany, France, Poland and Luxembourg (the big users) would give 5€ per year for each client they implement all issues with funding would be gone, Matrix 2.0 would be available in a few months, VC could be pushed out of elements AND they could mandate more transparency.

The issue with funding is relevant for all NGOs and especially in tech. Running servers costs a fuckton of money.

Signal has a respectable amount of backers but is a centralized protocol and when Trump does something shady moneywise their infrastructure,money and possibly even people will be gone within 24 hours.

Threema has a more sustainable business model but Switzerland is,well, difficult, in terms of privacy and intelligence services overreach, especially towards traffic pointing to foreign servers or hosts.

Revolt is a centralized service with no federation,limited selfhosting capabilities,with unclear funding(we are waiting for a financial transparency report for ages now).

Polyproto is still not quite there feature wise and funding, etc. is unclear.

Delta Chat is indeed an option but has massive technical limitations.

That leaves XMPP as the sole big competition if you want non-centralised, non-US based, privacy friendly, messaging.

And Switzerlands records in terms of privacy sadly is far worse than most people think - even with the last attack being repelled.

Matrix (preferably on a non-matrix.org instance) currently is the preferable non US and privacy friendly way.

Now make it 60! That’s the only number that counts! One per second!

(And yes, that’s doable,done that,but won’t do it again…it wasn’t pretty,it wasn’t fun)

Wie im englischen schon geschrieben: Da hat man einen Privatjet auf Abruf, eine Security Mannschaft die sonst wie groß ist und keiner denkt daran mal ein medical team einzustellen,dass sein Geld wert ist?

Eieieieiei. Da hat einer arg geschlampt.

Das Problem ist nicht,dass die Leute sich was nehmen - sollen sie, aber ich hab eh vorher alles bei Kleinanzeigen drin gehabt was halbwegs sinnig ist.

Aber: Ich hab es fucking jedes Mal Sachen dabei gehabt,die der Sperrmüll nicht mitnimmt. Von einem ganzen fucking Metallbett (natürlich so verrostet,dass es keiner mehr nutzen konnte) über giftige uralte Holzlasur (fuck that… das ist Giftmüll und hätte in der Entsorgung über 500€ gekostet… aber den Penner hab ich erwischt & er hat sich nachher schön mit den Cops unterhalten dürfen) bis hin zu so viel Kram,dass die Abtransportmenge überschritten wird und mein Kram stehen bleibt (weil die natürlich außen drauf legen und die Abholer von außen anfangen).

Ich mach mittlerweile grundgehend mehrere Fotos,mit Zeugen und allem. Weil es jedes Mal fucking Ärger gibt. Ich bin es so leid.

Yeah, a friend of mine literally told them “I’d rather let you fire me than end up in El Salvador”.

They didn’t fire him. The US client was infuriated, but now they meet in Canada or London.

Don’t get the Kobo,it works only mediocre with Calibre Web and other “web based” “personal librarys” - and Kobo is forcing Kepub down users throat more and more. Kobo only looks good if you come from the hellhole that Kindle has become,tbh.

I would highly recommend looking into Pocketbook and especially Onyx if your goal is a more “free” approach.

Das sind keine Endpreise - sondern die Stadtgebote - und,dass sollte einem bei Industrieauktionen auch klar sein: Da kommt noch eine heftige Auktionsgebühr (18% in diesem Fall) + Steuer oben drauf, zusätzlich muss man die Ware abholen.

Industrieauktionen und Zwangsversteigerungen sind etwas anderes als Ebay

The learning curve isn’t that step anymore, especially for Singleplayer - even for more experienced Arma Players the main frustration there is the “trial and error” factor in the missions. Online it’s a bit different - if you don’t play full on MILSIM and focus on infantry combat you will be good there as well. It’s all manageable these days. And still great fun.

Nah, my bad, the later. Sorry

As we are looking at the company expenditures here, it’s the former.

Neofascists doing neofascists things

I never understood how they could choose Apotheker. He was literally fired from SAP in less than a year and yet HP got him as a CEO.

WebOS had its flaws,but it could have made HP market leader - at that time Apple was far from “enterprise ready”, Android even less so, so if they had done it right they would have every CIO in their pocket within 4 years.

But of course that doesn’t count for the next quarterly shareholder report. And Apotheker had to go “all in” on Software, because that’s what he, the salesman he is, sold them.

And a 80k$ salary in France amounts to around 125k$ cost for the employer. So 170k$ isn’t that much - I actually know French developers and network engineers that make similar money. The French ITsec architect I interviewed last year would have cost me (converted) around 150k$.

So 170k$ is absolutely not out of the normal range here.

Talking about France: The French government could start to properly support matrix.org as they use it for tChap. The same goes for Germany with the “Behördenmessenger”

Especially as his brother was with him on the flight.

That is another level of gruesomeness.

Yeah, absolutely, AI has issues- that’s why I narrowed my “Boeings fa**ult” down to electronics/software. There isn’t too much maintenance they can fuck up in that department that can kill both engines(afaik). In other parts like fuel,fuel distribution,etc? Totally different.

My bet is still on sometimes with the fuel, though. Maybe water in the fuel.

No. Faults often don’t get detected early,need certain circumstances (swiss cheese model) or quite simply, are caused by replacement parts. There is a long chain of things that could fall into Boeing responsibility - and even if it doesn’t the market does not always react reasonably.

Wake turbulence requires something to cause the wake - usually another aircraft. Additionally wake turbulences autoregulate themselves - they don’t stay “in the air” but rather disperse rather fast, especially close to the ground. VAAH is a pretty small airport that has no continual taxiway(which they once had,for some strange reason) so aircraft need to backtrack(Basically go in the wrong direction on the RW, then do a U-Turn) at the end of the runway if they go for a take-off runway of RW23.This leads to a long time for any wake turbulence to disperse.

Additionally the 787 is a mighty big aircraft and mostly wake turbulences affect aircraft that are smaller than the ones which caused it. (This is of course not fully accurate,but it gets complicated then) And the 787 is absolutely powerful enough to power through basically any wake turbulence.

Last but not least there was not a starting aircraft directly before the flight but a (very small) landing one - so even more time for any wake to disperse.

So in the end I would be pretty damn sure it wasn’t that.

Yeah,I am not sure if there is a safety interlock with Boeing RATs(and the video is really bad)…so it might be intentional.

It’s strange. Personally I currently go with water in the fuel system as the “most likely guess by a armchair pilot”(me),but wouldn’t also be surprised being it an electronic error. When that would be the case Boeing would be fucked beyond repair,imho.